Boney, 17, an L&N STEM Academy senior, plays music (cello, bass
and percussion) with his high school orchestra and with the Knoxville
(Tennessee) Symphony Orchestra. He attended the 2017 Governor’s School for the
Arts on the Middle Tennessee State University campus in Murfreesboro.
The Knoxville resident was one of numerous outstanding students
attending the MTSU True Blue Tour events held in his hometown at The Foundry on
the Fair Site Oct. 26 and in Johnson City Oct. 25 at The Millennium Centre.
Knoxville and Johnson City were the seventh and eighth stops on the 12-city
tour, which travels across Tennessee and out of state to recruit students for
2018 and beyond.
Boney, who already made an official campus visit, has applied and
been accepted at MTSU, where he wants to carry his 3.4 GPA and 29 ACT into the
recording industry field in the College of Media and Entertainment.
“MTSU’s definitely one of my best and favorite options,” said Boney,
who is considering MTSU’s affordability compared to private school options. In
his spare time, he also works for a Mexican restaurant.
In the upper East Tennessee tour event, Daniel Boone High School
senior Aidan Orchard and Walters
State Community College sophomore Emily
Earl were thrilled about their futures at MTSU.
Orchard, 17, plans to study mechanical
engineering or mechatronics
engineering at MTSU. He was among a group of students and parents sharing
their thoughts about MTSU.
“It’s a beautiful and clean school,” said Orchard, who visited
campus recently. “The campus is amazing. There are all kinds of activities to
participate in and the education is superior to schools in the area.”
Greeneville, Tennessee, resident Earl and her mother, Kitty Earl,
spent quality time with College of Education Dean Lana Seivers, an East
Tennessee native from Clinton and MTSU alumna, who told them “our faculty model
what we teach.” Emily Earl plans to study elementary education to be a K-5
teacher.
“I’m pretty set on MTSU,” Earl said. “I want a good education
department, and being able to smoothly transfer all my Tennessee Promise
credits.”
MTSU will hold its second Fall
Preview Day Saturday, Nov. 4. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Linda
Olsen, undergraduate recruitment coordinator, both highlighted the Dec. 1 deadline to apply and be in line for guaranteed scholarships if
academic requirements are met. The deadline for transfer students is Feb. 15,
2018.
Next up for the MTSU recruiting team are back-to-back Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 1-2,
visits to Chattanooga and Atlanta, Georgia.
An 11:30 a.m. high school counselor and community college staff
luncheon and 6 p.m. student reception in Chattanooga will be at the Chattanooga
Convention Center, 1 Carter Place, in Chattanooga. MTSU will have an 11:30 a.m. luncheon for counselors and community
college staff and 6 p.m. student reception at Crowne Plaza Perimeter at
Ravina, 4365 Ashford Dunwoody Drive, in Atlanta.
The True Blue Tour events are free. To register, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/schedule-a-visit/special-events.php.
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